The following pictures were taken on rehearsal Friday of the 2021 HB Air Show, that was unfortunately shortened due to the oil spill from an offshore pipeline about 5 miles off the coast of Huntington Beach.
The Orange County Chinook water dropping helicopter
The Orange County rescue helicopter demonstration
The U.S. Navy Leap Frogs - Flag Jump (that must do wonders for one's leg)
A T-33, the Air Force's first operational jet
Orange County fire boat
The Lucas Oil Acrobatic Plane
North American B-25 Mitchell Bomber, named the “Guardian of Freedom" (from the Lyon Air Museum)
The U.S. Navy F-35C Demonstration Team
In afterburner mode
The U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey Demo Team - in forward flight mode
and hover mode
The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds
It took me about 5 years to get this sequence of 4 pictures of 2 of the Thunderbirds crossing at over 700mph
and even closer
Phew!! To give an idea of how fast the planes were going, all 4 pictures in the sequence occurred within a single second.